The Gate Of Good Fortune c1-905

by Demon Translations

  “Puff….” Ning Cheng directly vomited out a mouthful of blood. At this moment, Ning Cheng could feel his entire body weakening at an alarming pace; at this moment, he basically would not be able to muster enough strength to even defend himself against a chicken. Moreover, no matter what he did, he simply was not able to even suppress, let alone extinguish the golden flames that covered his Golden Core; it was as if he had completely lost control of his Golden Core.

  Not good,

  it seems he has finally gone over the threshold of absorbing spiritual qi in the Small Spiritual Domain; the Yang Qi was trying to incinerate his body. Fortunately, Ning Cheng had also heard the advices provided by the several Senior Apprentice Brothers and Senior Apprentice Sisters, he knew that the Yang Qi would burn one from inside to outside. If the accumulation of Yang Qi were light then at most you would lose your cultivation, but if it was too much then there, was even a possibility that even your corporeal body would turn into ashes and disappear.

  At this time, Ning Cheng was aware that he should not dare to continue absorbing more of the spiritual qi here for his cultivation. He was even afraid of trying to mobilize the Mysterious Yellow Origin to heal himself. He was aware that the Mysterious Yellow Origin was comprised of Pure Yang Qi, if he mobilized it, then it would be equivalent to adding burning fuel to a volcano.

  Looking at his Golden Core, even if one looked with their naked eyes, they would be able to see a thin layer of golden coloured fire that covered his entire Golden Core. Ning Cheng on observing this knew that there was simply no other way. He could only reluctantly try to control the Star River Seed to try to absorb these flames. He did not know if the Star River Seed would be able to absorb these flames or not, but at this moment he truly could not think of any other way.

  But what made Ning Cheng completely shocked was that once he tried stimulating the Star River Seed, it was as if a fierce hurricane had swept over, completely swallowing the golden flames that had covered the entirety of Ning Cheng’s Golden Core.

  Although his Golden Core turned a bit duller, but Ning Cheng who had just advanced to the Profound Core 7th Level in his cultivation fell back down to the Profound Core 6th Level. Although his cultivation did not rise and instead fell, it actually made Ning Cheng feel relieved, why would he still dare to continue cultivating inside at this moment?

  Feeling his true essence and strength slowly recovering, Ning Cheng couldn’t help but be secretly scared in his heart. He was aware that there was a limit on how much one could cultivate inside the Small Spiritual Domain, and was also aware that once the phenomenon of Yang Qi trying to burn one’s body occurred, then it would be extremely hard to turn it back.

  However, from what he had heard, the phenomenon of Yang Qi trying to burn one’s body would mostly occur when one was at the Great Circle of the Soul Essence Realm, even between the Soul Sculpting and above realm cultivators, such kind of phenomenon would rarely occur. Even among the Soul Essence Cultivators, such a scenario was still quite rare. Then why did the phenomenon of Yang Qi burning one’s body occur in him who had just advanced to the Profound Core 7th Level?

  Forget about the time remaining, he had only cultivated inside this place for just seven months and a few days into the eight month. He had originally intended to only come out after he cultivated to the Great Circle of the Profound Core Realm. Looking at the situating it seems that this was simply impossible. If he wanted to continue cultivating in here, then he would have to find something that would help him curb this kind of phenomenon of Yang Qi burning one’s body.

  It was fortunate that he was in possession of the Star River Seed, otherwise, he really had no idea as to how could he resolve the situation of his Golden Core spontaneously bursting into flames?

  “There is never such a thing as a perfect existence.” Ning Cheng stood up, and couldn’t help but mutter helplessly to himself, “Fortunately, I have the Star River Seed.”

  “Huh….” As Ning Cheng thought about the Star River, he couldn’t help but glance at the Star River Seed in his Zifu. Because of the absorption of the Golden Core Flame, faint golden traces unexpectedly appeared on the outside, as if something was about to break off from the inside of a shell.

  Suddenly a crazy idea began to take shape in Ning Cheng’s heart; there might be a chance for him to continue cultivating. If his Golden Core once again burst into flames, then couldn’t he let the Star River Seed once again absorb the flames covering his Golden Core?

  Insane?

  Ning Cheng immediately killed this idea before he could even act upon it. Even if he could make the Star River to break out of the shell with this approach, there was a huge chance that he might just end up ruining his Golden Core. Besides, who could say if he would be able to endure that kind of inhumane pain?

  It seems that I really cannot continue cultivating in the Small Spiritual Domain,

  Ning Cheng thought as he gave a long sigh. It was really unfortunate, as he still had almost a years’ time left.

  Well, everything ultimately has a limit on it.

  Moreover, even if the phenomenon of Yang Qi burning one’s body did not occur, he would still have to leave the Small Spiritual Domain prematurely anyway.

  As to trying to face the Soul Essence Thunder Tribulation to advance to the Soul Essence Realm, Ning Cheng was well aware that with his qualifications, if he truly wanted to advance to the Soul Essence Realm, then he would absolutely have to rely on the Soul Condensing Pill. Only after he went out and got hold of the Soul Condensing Pill, could he prepare himself for the Thunder Tribulation.

  Chapter 0282 – Ning Cheng Comes Out

  Translated By – DemonKiller

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  “You came out.” Ning Cheng had just stepped out of the Small Spiritual Domain, when the old man guarding the entrance of the Small Spiritual Domain took the initiative to speak a sentence.

  “Yes, senior. This junior still has some time not used on the Jade Talisman, can senior please help me replace it with the equivalent jade cards. I will come here again later to continue cultivating.” Ning Cheng handed over the partially crumbling Jade Talisman to the old man. He couldn’t help but feel somewhat strange as to why this old man had taken the initiative today to strike a conversation with him.

  Although he had come here once or twice, the old man had not even once taken the initiative to speak to him, let alone using this kind of somewhat polite tone. Besides, he had spent just over seven months inside, and had only advanced from the Profound Core 1st Level to the Profound Core 6th Level. For a cultivator cultivating in the Small Spiritual Domain, this kind of speed was not very fast, but at the same time, it was also not slow either.

  The old man was very skilled, and in a short while provided Ning Cheng with ten cultivation jade cards, and spoke, “Elder Bei came here to find you earlier to give you some things before he went on a trip.”

  “Many thanks Senior, this junior acknowledges.” Ning Cheng put away the jade cards, and quickly thanked him with a sentence, especially after he came to know that Elder Bei had come to visit him.

  Elder Bei was none other than Bei Youfa. Ning Cheng simply did not have any backing in the Rainbow Fall Sword Sect, if one must absolutely say about his backing, then Elder Bei can be regarded as one of his patrons. Moreover, this person Elder Bei was also good natured, and also seems to appreciate Ning Cheng.

  Ning Cheng also very much respected Elder Bei, if there was no Elder Bei during the last assignment, then he might not have even be able to come back easily, let alone being richly rewarded.

  So, once Ning Cheng came out of the Small Spiritual Domain, he directly made his way to the Distant Sword Peak. The Distant Sword Peak was the immortal cave where Elder Bei lived, as such although Ning Cheng had not come here before, he was still aware of the location of the
Distant Sword Peak.

  ……

  The Distant Sword Peak was quite uncommon, in truth it was even inferior to the immortal caves that were provided to some of the True Inheriting Disciples. Ning Cheng could see from this Distant Sword Peak, that Elder Bei was quite fond of a type of ordinary yet flowing environment. If he had to say as to what was different about this place compared to others, then Ning Cheng would definitely say that it had a unique scholarly aura to it. This kind of aura was actually in perfect harmony with Elder Bei’s Confucian Scholarly feel; rather it actually accentuated that point.

  “Senior Apprentice Brother Ning Cheng really came out.” Ning Cheng had just arrived outside the Restriction covering the Distant Sword Peak, when the Restriction automatically opened, revealing a teenage boy behind the Restriction who was standing with his fists cupped towards Ning Cheng.

  “Yes, I came here to visit Elder Bei.” Ning Cheng quickly replied.

  This teenager took out a golden coloured jade strip and handed it Ning Cheng before saying, “This is something Elder Bei left for you, Elder Bei has gone on a trip to the Heavenly Dao Public Square.”

  “Many thanks, Junior Apprentice Brother.” Ning Cheng put away the jade strip and immediately left the Distant Sword Peak, since Elder Bei was not here, then he first would have to return back to the Developing Sword Peak.

  Once he was back inside his residence, only then did Ning Cheng took out the jade strip left behind by Elder Bei for the first time.

  After looking at the contents of the jade strip, Ning Cheng silently shook his head, before he simply threw the jade strip back into his ring. As for the matter in the jade strip, he truly could not take this matter seriously. The Severing Emotions Dao Sect and the Floating Snow Palace’s True Inheriting female disciples have taken a fancy to him? Even to the point of gunning for a marriage alliance between the academies, just whom did they think they were trying to deceive.

  Not to mention that Ning Cheng simply did not believe that the two academies finest female disciples would take a fancy to him, even if he did believe it, it was only a clump of farts to him in the end. Ning Cheng was from Earth; as such, a marriage was not a trifling matter to him. He was brought up with different customs compared to the cultivators here, that is, a marriage for him was something equivalent to a life changing majorly serious event. Not to mention that he already had Ji Luofei.

  Moreover the feelings between him and Ji Luofei had started to develop after undergoing a lot of adversities, this kind of feeling and mutual understanding, compared to these academies shamelessly proposing a marriage alliance after getting to know that he possessed a lot of Spiritual Enhancement True Nectar and Mirage Stones, was something that cannot be compared on the same level.

  That’s not right

  ; Ning Cheng suddenly felt that his own thoughts on this matter were quite simple. The Severing Emotions Dao Sect and the Floating Snow Palace were academies much larger than the Rainbow Fall Sword Sect, why would these kind of behemoth academies take the initiative to propose a marriage alliance just because he possessed the Spiritual Enhancement True Nectar and Mirage Stones? Even if they wanted these things in bulk, didn’t the two of them already possessed the ability and the resources to easily procure them? Why would they stoop so low with other people?

  This matter should not be as simple as it looks from the surface. Ning Cheng couldn’t help but scratch his head, even when he thought about it for a long time; he still wasn’t able to come up with a good reason. But he soon put it at the back of his head, it seems that even his academy has not taken this to heart, if the academy had truly taken this seriously, then why would Elder Bei leave after leaving behind just a single jade strip for him?

  Since the academy was also not taking this seriously, then why should he let himself get bothered by it? As for the message left behind by Elder Bei, which suggested him to visit the Severing Emotions Dao Sect and the Floating Snow Palace, Ning Cheng simply went ahead and ignored it.

  Even if the Floating Snow Palace possessed the Soul Refining Snow and Ice Domain, Ning Cheng still did not bother about it. The reason why the phenomenon of Yang Qi burning his body occurred was that he was cultivating inside the Small Spiritual Domain. Since he was no longer cultivating inside, as such this kind of thing would not be happening again, so why should he go to the Floating Snow Palace? Moreover, even if he went to the Floating Snow Palace, would they even allow him to use their Soul Refining Snow and Ice Domain?

  After putting aside the matter relating to the Floating Snow Palace and the Severing Emotions Dao Sect, Ning Cheng instead focussed his attention on the Tian Continent’s Great Meet of the Academies that Elder Bei had gone to attend. This Great Meet of the Academies, was attended by almost all the elites from all over the Tian Continent, as such he wanted to find out if he would be able to purchase the Soul Condensing Pill from there.

  The Soul Condensing Pill was a Rank 7 Pill. Refining it required the Essence Soul Fruit as the main spiritual grass along with several other extremely valuable spiritual objects. Currently Ning Cheng did not have any Essence Soul Fruits, let alone the various other things Ning Cheng needed for its spiritual growth. Moreover, he also was not able to refine a Rank 7 Pill. With his current accomplishments in Alchemy, even if he wanted to refine Rank 5 pills for the Profound Core Realm, it still would be very difficult.

  Whether or not he could continue cultivating in the Small Spiritual Domain at this moment, it was not something very important to him. What was truly important to him currently was that he had to find a Soul Condensing Pill for himself, while simultaneously preparing himself for the Thunder Tribulation.

  After sorting through all these information for a bit, the first place he wanted to visit was the Academy’s Exchange Hall. He had a million contribution points; as such, he wanted to find out if he could exchange these contribution points for a Soul Condensing Pill. If he could use the contribution points to exchange for a Soul Essence Pill, then he would not have to go out in search for it. Besides, if he wanted to purchase a Soul Condensing Pill on the outside, the spirit stones in his possession might just not be enough.

  ……

  “You want to exchange it for Soul Condensing Pills?” The person responsible for the exchange of contribution points couldn’t help but voice a question in doubt, but also not waiting for Ning Cheng to answer, gave a reply, “200,000 contribution points….”

  “You can really exchange it for Soul Condensing Pills? And also for this cheap…..” Ning Cheng was truly surprised as he immediately took out his Contribution Points Jade Card.

  The person in charge of the exchange simply did not take Ning Cheng’s jade card, but rather glanced at Ning Cheng before speaking in a light tone, “I have not yet finished 200,000 contribution points, plus an Essence Soul Fruit……”

  Hearing the last three words, Ning Cheng almost shouted out a string of curses. If he had an Essence Soul Fruit, why would he exchange it for the Soul Condensing Pill, moreover even come here to the Academy Exchange?

  However, Ning Cheng was also aware that there was no point in arguing for this kind of thing. He did not even finish with his request before he put away the contribution points jade card and started walking towards the Method Depository Pavilion.

  Ning Cheng was aware that for the most parts, the people in change of these halls, just like the cultivator responsible for the exchange, would not have too high of a cultivation. In general, these people were somewhat older, and are simply unable to make any progress in their cultivation. But when Ning Cheng laid his gaze on the old man with long eyebrows in the Method Depository Pavilion, he couldn’t help but clench his heart. This long eye browed old man, although looked ordinary on the surface, however he was a cultivator beyond the Soul Sculpting Realm.

  Moreover, in his heart he also had a vague feeling, that this old man’s cultivation was far stronger than that of Elder Bei. Which meant that he was at least a late stage Crucible Transformation Cult
ivator, or maybe even higher.

  “Senior, I came to the Method Depository Pavilion to look for information jade strips.” Ning Cheng spoke in a very respectful manner.

  The old man with the long eyebrows was pondering over something like a tortoise shell that he was holding in his hand when he suddenly looked up, before giving Ning Cheng a glance, followed by a slight frown.

  Ning Cheng became bit worried at the sight of this, but before he could speak up the old man suddenly spoke up, “Just look at the display array formation on the side by yourself.”

  Hearing the old man, Ning Cheng immediately took a note of something, that just behind this old man this was a display array formation. Followed by all kinds of Jade Strips containing information about the pavilions. Cultivation Method Pavilion 1st Level, using it for a day requires 100 contribution points, Cultivation Method Pavilion 2nd Level, using it for a day requires 1000 contribution points…

  Even Artefact Refining Pavilion, Alchemy Pavilion….

  Although Ning Cheng only casually looked at it, he could see that these were at least a few dozen different pavilions, moreover each of these pavilions seem to have many levels. It showed that this huge academy actually had a very rich heritage, looking at these many jade strips, he really could not make out as to how long did it take to accumulate this much.

  Ning Cheng soon found the Materials Pavilion that he was in need of, and spoken “I want to go to the Materials Pavilion to look for some information…”

  “Just press in 10,000 contribution points, you can go in by yourself after it, once you come out the excess would be returned to you.” The old man spoke plainly.

  Ning Cheng quickly took out his contribution points jade cars, and immediately deducted 10,000 contribution points out of it.